All articles starting with F

Friedrich C. Luft

Friedrich C. Luft, born in Berlin in 1942, is a physician-scientist and professor at the Max Delbrück Center and Charité in Berlin, known for research on hypertension and nephrology.

Friedrich C. Simmel

Friedrich C. Simmel is a professor of physics at the Technical University of Munich working in DNA nanotechnology, known for a nanoscale robotic arm controlled by electric fields.

Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels

Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (1865–1913) was a German physicist who described the Pockels effect, the electric-field change of refractive index, in an 1893 monograph; brother of Agnes Pockels.

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Friedrich Christian Delius

Friedrich Christian Delius (1943–2022) was a German novelist, poet, and essayist who chronicled the Federal Republic of Germany and won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2011.

Friedrich Christoph Oetinger

Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702–1782) was a German theosophist and Lutheran theologian who served as prelate of Murrhardt, blending Kabbalah, alchemy, and Jakob Böhme's visions into his theology.

Friedrich Constantin von Tischendorf

Friedrich Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874) was a German biblical critic and textual scholar, professor at Leipzig, best known for discovering the Codex Sinaiticus at St Catherine's Monastery.

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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué was a German Romantic writer and Prussian officer (1777–1843), remembered chiefly for his 1811 tale Undine about a water spirit.

Friedrich Dessauer (1881–1963) was a German physicist, radiologist, and Reichstag politician who pioneered radiation therapy, founded medical physics in Germany, and wrote a Catholic philosophy of technology.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) was a Swiss playwright, novelist, and essayist whose tragicomic plays The Visit and The Physicists were central to the postwar revival of German theater.

Friedrich Ebert

Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), German Social Democratic leader, first Reich President of the Weimar Republic; SPD chairman from 1913, headed the 1918 Council of People's Deputies, elected president 11 February 1919.

Friedrich Ebert Jr.

Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894–1979), eldest son of Weimar Reich President Friedrich Ebert, was an SPD journalist, Reichstag member, Nazi concentration camp prisoner, and then SED co-founder who served as East Berlin's first Lord Mayor from 1948 to 1967 and later as GDR Staatsrat deputy chairman.

Friedrich Emich

Friedrich Emich (1860–1940) was an Austrian chemist at the Technische Hochschule in Graz who founded quantitative inorganic microanalysis; Fritz Pregl credited him as the true founder of microchemistry.

Friedrich Engel (mathematician)

Friedrich Engel (1861–1941) was a German mathematician, born in Lugau, Saxony, known for Engel's theorem on nilpotent Lie algebras and for co-writing Sophus Lie's three-volume Theorie der Transformationsgruppen.

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist theorist and Marx's lifelong collaborator, co-author of the Communist Manifesto, author of Anti-Dühring and The Origin of the Family, editor of Capital volumes 2–3.

Friedrich Ernst Dorn

Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848–1916) was a German physicist who held the physics chair at the University of Halle and is credited with discovering radon in 1900.

Friedrich Fehleisen

Friedrich Fehleisen (1854–1924) was a German physician and surgeon who, working at Würzburg, isolated the erysipelas streptococcus in pure culture and proved experimentally that it causes the disease.

Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust

Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809–1886), Saxon and Austrian statesman; Saxon foreign minister 1849–66, Austrian foreign minister and first Austro-Hungarian Reichskanzler 1867–71, negotiator of the 1867 Ausgleich with Deák, later ambassador in London and Paris.

Friedrich Feyrter

Friedrich Feyrter (1895–1973) was an Austrian pathologist who proposed in 1938 that scattered hormone-producing cells form the diffuse endocrine system, and is called the Father of Neuroendocrinology.

Friedrich Fröbel

Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852), German pedagogue, founder of the kindergarten (term coined 1840 for his 1837 Blankenburg school), creator of the Spielgaben gifts and occupations, pioneer of play-based early childhood education and training for women kindergarten teachers.

Friedrich Fromm

Friedrich Fromm (1888–1945), German Generaloberst, Chief of Army Armament and Commander of the Replacement Army 1939–1944. Urged peace from 1941, tolerated the 20 July 1944 plot, then had Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators shot; executed by the Nazi regime in March 1945.

Friedrich Georg Schneider

Friedrich Georg Schneider (born 1949 in Konstanz) is a German economist and professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, known for his estimates of the shadow economy.

Friedrich Goppelsroeder

Friedrich Goppelsroeder (Christoph Friedrich Goppelsroeder; 1837–1919) was a Swiss chemist who developed capillary analysis, separating dissolved dyes by their rise through filter paper, a precursor of paper chromatography.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) was a German religious poet from Quedlinburg whose epic Der Messias, published from 1748 to 1773, transformed German verse by abandoning rhyme for classical hexameter.

Friedrich Graf von Wrangel

Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), "Papa Wrangel", Prussian Generalfeldmarschall born in Stettin; suppressed the 1848 Berlin revolution, commanded Confederation troops against Denmark in 1848 and 1864, became count in 1864.

Friedrich Grimminger

Friedrich Grimminger is a German pulmonary physician-scientist, professor of internal medicine at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 2003, known for the Giessen pharmacotherapy program in pulmonary hypertension.

Friedrich Grummt

Friedrich Grummt was a German molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Würzburg who showed that purine nucleotide pools control ribosomal RNA synthesis.

Friedrich Hartogs

Friedrich (Fritz) Moritz Hartogs was a German mathematician at the University of Munich, regarded as the founder of several complex variables; his 1906 extension theorem shows holomorphic functions of several complex variables cannot have isolated singularities.